Saturday, March 25, 2023

We need to be better citizens

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Wednesday, March 22, 2023

Where were we Bham peeps during Sen. Britt's Bham visit?

Email to Birmingham Business Alliance
From: Rob Shattuck <rdshatt@aol.com>
To: ejerkins@birminghambusinessalliance.com, nbaldwin@birminghambusinessalliance.com, kkhodanian@birminghambusinessalliance.com, edix@birminghambusinessalliance.com,
Cc: hduncan@bcatoday.org, cfranklin@bcatoday.org, khope@bcatoday.org
Sent: Sun, Mar 26, 2023 7:01 pm
Subject: What does Sen. Britt think about 2024 being "the final battle"?
To: Birmingham Business Alliance
I believe Sen. Britt spoke to the Birmingham Business Alliance when she was in Birmingham a week ago.
I don't know what she said to the Alliance.
On Saturday in Waco, Trump pronounced that the 2024 election will be "the final battle." https://www.dallasnews.com/news/politics/2023/03/25/trump-kicks-off-campaign-in-waco-calling-2024-race-the-final-battle/
I would like to think that Alabamians could be interested in what Sen. Britt thinks about that. https://al6thcongdist-ihaveuntiljan13.blogspot.com/2023/03/where-were-our-bham-peeps-during-sen.html
I beseech the Alliance to use its contacts with Sen. Britt to ask her to issue a public statement about her belief relative to the 2024 election being "the final battle," as Trump has pronounced.
For filing in https://al6thcongdist-ihaveuntiljan13.blogspot.com/2022/05/a-time-for-al-institutional-respect-and.html.
Thank you.
Sincerely,
Rob Shattuck
Mountain Brook
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Monday, March 20, 2023

ADAA & Declaration of public officials for gun violence prevention


Email to Alabama District Attorneys Association President Bailey
From: Rob Shattuck <rdshatt@aol.com>
To: darylbailey@mc-ala.org <darylbailey@mc-ala.org>
Sent: Mon, Mar 20, 2023 7:53 am
Subject: ADAA & Declaration of public officials for gun violence prevention
Dear Alabama District Attorneys Association President Bailey:
This email is prompted by the article District attorneys prepare public safety package for lawmakers — 'The main piece of our package is going to be violent crime',
The article quotes you saying about violent crime the following:
"This has obviously plagued the state of Alabama. We have, especially in our major metropolitan areas, we've seen just so much violent crime and continue to. Being the District Attorney in Montgomery County, pending in my office right now, we have pending approximately 300 homicides, and it just doesn't seem like it's going to slow down. So, violent crime is extremely important to our association and to make sure we have the tools to fight violent crime."
Gun control laws are a tool to fight violent crime.
Gun control laws are, however, subject to the Second Amendment.
Correctly or incorrectly, the United States Supreme Court has held that, under the Second Amendment, citizens have a right to own and carry guns for self-defense.
For now that is the law of the land, and lawmakers, law enforcement authorities, judges and all who desire gun control laws to help fight violent crime are constrained by the foregoing Second Amendment limitation on gun control laws.
As a citizen, I have, since September, been purveying that governors, mayors, lawmakers, law enforcement officials, and others having public responsibility to prevent gun violence make a "Declaration of public officials for gun violence prevention" along the lines set out at https://al6thcongdist-ihaveuntiljan13.blogspot.com/2022/09/declaration-of-public-officials-for-gun.html.
From that declaration I have crafted the mantra #GunsForSelfDefenseOnly for use in shaping, advocating for, and defending in the courts, common sense solutions for reducing gun violence.
I hope the ADAA will advocate for Governor Ivey and other appropriate Alabama officials to make the "Declaration of public officials for gun violence prevention" such as I have suggested.
After I send this email, I will post the email at https://al6thcongdist-ihaveuntiljan13.blogspot.com/2023/03/adaa-declaration-of-public-officials.html.
Thank you for your attention.
Sincerely,
Rob Shattuck
Mountain Brook

Email to Alabama chapter of Moms Demand
From: Rob Shattuck <rdshatt@aol.com>
To: alabama@momschapterleaders.org <alabama@momschapterleaders.org>
Sent: Mon, Mar 20, 2023 6:05 pm
Subject: Re: Alabama Moms Demand Action zoom invite for 3/21 Permitless Carry Presentation
Thank you, Susan and Paula.
Just to keep you current on what I am doing, this morning I emailed Alabama District Attorneys Association President Bailey relative to the "public safety package" that the ADAA submitted to Alabama's lawmakers, as reported in the article District attorneys prepare public safety package for lawmakers — 'The main piece of our package is going to be violent crime'.
The email I sent to President Bailey can be found at https://al6thcongdist-ihaveuntiljan13.blogspot.com/2023/03/adaa-declaration-of-public-officials.html
Sincerely,
Rob Sen. Britt's visit to Gardendale and "Declaration of public officials for gun violence prevention"
From: Rob Shattuck <rdshatt@aol.com>
To: info@cityofgardendale.com <info@cityofgardendale.com>
Cc: DAinquiry@jccal.org <DAinquiry@jccal.org>; inquiries@jeffcobessemerda.org <inquiries@jeffcobessemerda.org>
Sent: Tue, Mar 21, 2023 12:52 pm
Subject: For Mayor Hogeland: Sen. Britt's visit and "Declaration of public officials for gun violence prevention"
Dear Mayor Hogeland:
Sen. Britt tweeted about her visiting in Gardendale yesterday with mayors from across Jefferson County.
Her tweet said "Local leaders are best positioned to tackle local challenges and opportunities, and I’m always eager to hear how I can be a partner at the federal level in strengthening our communities."
The Alabama District Attorneys Association has submitted a "public safety package" to Alabama's lawmakers, as reported in the article District attorneys prepare public safety package for lawmakers — 'The main piece of our package is going to be violent crime'.
I emailed Alabama District Attorneys Association President Bailey, saying that, since September, I have been purveying that governors, mayors, lawmakers, law enforcement officials, and others having public responsibility to prevent gun violence should make a "Declaration of public officials for gun violence prevention" along the lines set forth in https://al6thcongdist-ihaveuntiljan13.blogspot.com/2022/09/declaration-of-public-officials-for-gun.html.
My email to President Bailey can be found at https://al6thcongdist-ihaveuntiljan13.blogspot.com/2023/03/adaa-declaration-of-public-officials.html.
I think Sen. Britt would make an excellent contribution to strengthening our communities if she took the lead in making the suggested "Declaration of public officials for gun violence prevention".
I hope you and the other mayors Sen. Britt visited with yesterday will consider said "Declaration of public officials for gun violence prevention", and, if you think Sen. Britt should take the lead in Alabama in making the Declaration, to request of Sen. Britt to do that.
I am copying Jefferson County District Attorneys Danny Carr and Lynneice O. Washington on this email to make sure they are aware of the email I sent to ADAA President Bailey.
Thank you for your attention to this email.
Sincerely,
Rob Shattuck
Mountain Brook

Email to Chris Christie
From: Rob Shattuck <rdshatt@aol.com>
To: chris.christie@dentons.com <chris.christie@dentons.com>
Cc: alabama@momschapterleaders.org <alabama@momschapterleaders.org>; info@phillipensler.com <info@phillipensler.com>; jvance@law.ua.edu <jvance@law.ua.edu>; eeaton@uabmc.edu <eeaton@uabmc.edu>
Sent: Wed, Mar 22, 2023 10:12 am
Subject: Last night's Alabama Moms Demand zoom call
Dear Chris:
I saw your name during the zoom call last night.
It seems that the Alabama Republican legislators have painfully rolled Alabama Moms Demand regarding permitless carry, and Alabama Moms Demand is deflated about their prospects for having a satisfying Advocacy Day in Montgomery this year.
I think Alabama Moms Demand should shift some of their focus away from the Alabama legislature and go hard at Alabama mayors, city councilors, county commissioners, sheriff's offices, and police departments to ask them to make a "Declaration of public officials for gun violence prevention" along the lines that I have set out at https://al6thcongdist-ihaveuntiljan13.blogspot.com/2022/09/declaration-of-public-officials-for-gun.html.
Such public declarations that are made I think can be used to build for the future of turning Alabama public opinion against the Republicans in the Alabama legislature.
If you would, please read the work I have done on this front during the past two days that is set out at https://al6thcongdist-ihaveuntiljan13.blogspot.com/2023/03/adaa-declaration-of-public-officials.html, and tell me what you think.
I believe on the call last night there was an Ann Ray who said she would like to visit the Shelby County sheriff's office and urge for repeal of permitless carry, and Ann was looking for someone to go with her. That is very up the alley I am advocating here, and I hope Susan and Paula will pass along my name to Ann Ray for going along with her.
Thanks, Chris, for whatever attention you can give to this email.
Sincerely,
Rob

Email to Alabama Moms Demand chapter leaders
From: Rob Shattuck <rdshatt@aol.com>
To: paulawilson.al@gmail.com <paulawilson.al@gmail.com>; alabama@momschapterleaders.org <alabama@momschapterleaders.org>
Cc: info@phillipensler.com <info@phillipensler.com>; chris.christie@dentons.com <chris.christie@dentons.com>; jvance@law.ua.edu <jvance@law.ua.edu>; eeaton@uabmc.edu <eeaton@uabmc.edu>; info@dougjones.com <info@dougjones.com>
Sent: Thu, Mar 23, 2023 7:33 am
Subject: Re: Alabama Moms Demand Action-Recording of Permitless Carry Law Meeting
Dear Paula and Susan,
Further to organizing and contacting sheriffs and legislators (and others I hope), here is what I suggest for Alabama Moms Demand Advocacy Day in Montgomery:
To wit, get Rep. Ensler and gun control cohorts he has in the Alabama House of Representatives and Alabama Senate to submit a "Resolution of the Alabama legislature for gun violence prevention," which resolution embodies in legislative form the "Declaration of public officials for gun violence prevention" set out at https://al6thcongdist-ihaveuntiljan13.blogspot.com/2022/09/declaration-of-public-officials-for-gun.html.
Such a resolution would presumably not pass in the Alabama legislature.
The object of the resolution would be to frame the public opinion debate in the vein of, on the one side (our side) saying:
"Yes, the United States Supreme Court has held that, under the Second Amendment, citizens have the right to own and carry guns for self-defense, and by implication the powers of government, lawmakers and law enforcement to protect the health and safety of the citizens and to defend the government itself are subject to the Supreme Court's holding citizens have the right under the Second Amendment to own and carry guns for self-defense. The powers of government, lawmakers and law enforcement to protect the health and safety of the citizens and to defend the government itself are, however, not abrogated by the Second Amendment, and such powers are to be and shall be exercised to constrain citizens in owning and carrying guns for other purposes than self-defense, such as preventing citizens from owning and carrying guns to aggress against and threaten other citizens, and to prevent them from owning and carrying guns for sedition against the government and attacking its law enforcement."
Framing the debate in foregoing way would be to force Alabama Republican lawmakers to take the opposite side and contend that, under the Second Amendment, citizens have a right to own and carry guns to aggress against and threaten other citizens and and a right to own and carry guns for sedition against the government and to attack its law enforcement.
If submitting the resolution as a bill in the Alabama legislature can get a public debate framed in the foregoing way, I think the majority of public opinion, even in Alabama, can be won over to our side.
I hope you will take up this suggestion for Alabama Moms Demand Advocacy Day in Montgomery.
Sincerely,
Rob
--Original Message-----
From: Rob Shattuck <rdshatt@aol.com>
To: paulawilson.al@gmail.com <paulawilson.al@gmail.com>
Sent: Wed, Mar 22, 2023 1:44 pm
Subject: Re: Alabama Moms Demand Action-Recording of Permitless Carry Law Meeting
Thanks Paula and Susan.
I look forward to being part of the team.
This email address for me (rdshatt@aol.com) can be used and shared.
Rob

Email to Alabama Rep. Barbara Drummond and former U.S. Senator Doug Jones
From: Rob Shattuck <rdshatt@aol.com>
To: info@dougjones.com <info@dougjones.com>
Cc: info@phillipensler.com <info@phillipensler.com>; alabama@momschapterleaders.org <alabama@momschapterleaders.org>; jstephenson@alabamareflector.com <jstephenson@alabamareflector.com>; pgattis@al.com <pgattis@al.com>
Sent: Fri, Mar 31, 2023 4:47 am
Subject: Safe gun storage bill and Ainsworth "pathetic" comment about Huntsville police officer
Dear Alabama Rep. Barbara Drummond and former U.S. Senator Doug Jones:
This email regards the safe gun storage bill that Rep. Drummond filed (reported at https://alabamareflector.com/2023/03/29/alabama-lawmaker-files-bill-requiring-safe-storage-of-firearms/ ) and former Senator Jones calling Lt. Gov. Ainsworth comment ‘pathetic’ regarding killing of Huntsville police officer (reported at https://www.al.com/news/2023/03/ainsworth-comment-pathetic-on-huntsville-police-officers-former-sen-doug-jones-says.html).
A. Safe gun storage bill
I think that common sense gun solutions (such as Rep. Drummond's safe gun storage bill) should be wrapped in the mantra #GunsForSelfDefenseOnly and should be supported by legislative body resolutions and public official declarations having the tenor of the "Declaration of public officials for gun violence prevention" that is set out at https://al6thcongdist-ihaveuntiljan13.blogspot.com/2022/09/declaration-of-public-officials-for-gun.html.
Alabama Representative Phillip Ensler has taken a lead in gun control in Alabama and I have urged that he and gun control cohorts he has in the Alabama House of Representatives and Alabama Senate submit a "Resolution of the Alabama legislature for gun violence prevention."
For more on this, please read https://al6thcongdist-ihaveuntiljan13.blogspot.com/2023/03/adaa-declaration-of-public-officials.html
I hope Rep. Drummond takes this up.
B. Sen. Jones calling Ainsworth comment "pathetic"
Guns are out of control in the United States.
Republicans such as Lt. Gov. Ainsworth, under the guise of the Second Amendment, are blocking common sense solutions for reducing gun violence, and this is making for police officers being exposed to more gun violence against them.
Police are becoming more supportive of gun controls. https://www.cnn.com/2022/06/16/politics/police-organizations-gun-control/index.html
The Moms Demand group in Alabama is undertaking to approach sheriff's offices to get their support for repealing the permitless carry law in Alabama, which became effective on January 1st.
Former Senator Jones should offer his support and suggestions for mobilizing public opinion in Alabama against permitless carry and for common sense gun solutions, including for Rep. Drummond's safe gun storage bill.
[This email has been sent to Rep. Drummond using her contact form on the Alabama House of Representative website. This email is also being posted at https://al6thcongdist-ihaveuntiljan13.blogspot.com/2023/03/adaa-declaration-of-public-officials.html.]
Sincerely,
Rob Shattuck
Mountain Brook

Email to Association of County Commissions of Alabama
From: Rob Shattuck <rdshatt@aol.com>
To: sbrasfield@alabamacounties.org <sbrasfield@alabamacounties.org>
Cc: darylbailey@mc-ala.org <darylbailey@mc-ala.org>; mfiedler@alabamacounties.org <mfiedler@alabamacounties.org>; lwaggoner@alabamacounties.org <lwaggoner@alabamacounties.org>; jsharp@al.com <jsharp@al.com>
Sent: Mon, Apr 3, 2023 1:42 pm
Subject: "After Nashville tragedy, will any gun bills be a priority for Alabama lawmakers?"
Dear Mr. Brasfield,
This email is prompted by John Sharpe's above captioned article, which article is posted on the Internet at https://www.al.com/news/2023/04/after-nashville-tragedy-will-any-gun-bills-be-a-priority-for-alabama-lawmakers.html.
The article says, "A wild card could exist in the coming weeks in the form of a gun-related package set to be pushed out by the Alabama District Attorney’s Association."
The purpose of this email is to inform your Association of County Commissions of Alabama that I have sent the below email to Alabama District Attorneys Association President Bailey related to its aforesaid gun package and to say that I hope your Association thinks the "Declaration of public officials for gun violence prevention" such as I have suggested at.https://al6thcongdist-ihaveuntiljan13.blogspot.com/2022/09/declaration-of-public-officials-for-gun.html would be a useful tool for reducing gun violence in Alabama.
Thank you for your attention to this email.
Sincerely,
Rob Shattuck
Mountain Brook
[The referenced "below email to Alabama District Attorneys Association President Bailey" appears above and is not reproduced here.]

Email re shooting of Clay-Chalkville High School student Kamaree Shondale Phillips
From: Rob Shattuck <rdshatt@aol.com>
To: wgonsoulin@jefcoed.com <wgonsoulin@jefcoed.com>; edallas@jefcoed.com <edallas@jefcoed.com>
Cc: info@jeffcosheriffal.com <info@jeffcosheriffal.com>; ammonss@jccal.org <ammonss@jccal.org>; erica.thomas@1819news.com <erica.thomas@1819news.com>; crobinson@al.com <crobinson@al.com>; DAinquiry@jccal.org <DAinquiry@jccal.org>; inquiries@jeffcobessemerda.org <inquiries@jeffcobessemerda.org>; Lauren.Jackson@wbrc.com <Lauren.Jackson@wbrc.com>; paulawilson.al@gmail.com <paulawilson.al@gmail.com>; skirkpatrick.al@gmail.com <skirkpatrick.al@gmail.com>; darylbailey@mc-ala.org <darylbailey@mc-ala.org>
Sent: Tue, Apr 4, 2023 5:07 am
Subject: Shooting of Clay-Chalkville High School student Kamaree Shondale Phillips
Dear Dr. Gonsoulin and Dr. Dallas,
I am a Jefferson County resident.
For your information, the Alabama District Attorneys Association is submitting to Alabama lawmakers a public safety package, per the article District attorneys prepare public safety package for lawmakers — 'The main piece of our package is going to be violent crime',
The article prompted me to send the below email to Alabama District Attorneys Association President Bailey.
I have also emailed Jefferson County District Attorneys Danny Carr and Lynneice O. Washington about this.
I am copying Jefferson County Sheriff Mark Pettway on this email and also my Jefferson County Commissioner Steve Ammons.
Much work is needed to reduce gun violence in Alabama.
I hope it is heartening to you to know there are Alabamians trying on this.
Sincerely,
Rob Shattuck
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Sunday, March 19, 2023

Dear Defensive Gun Use

For now there is no getting around that the United States Supreme Court has made it the law of the land that the Second Amendment gives citizens a right to own and carry guns for self -defense. As a result, I have been urging for months that the mantra #GunsForSelfDefenseOnly, should be looked to for shaping, advocating for, and defending in the courts, common sense solutions for reducing gun violence.
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Saturday, March 18, 2023

Freedom and law and order

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Friday, March 17, 2023

Alabama Advocacy Day

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Thursday, March 16, 2023

Letter to AL State Public Health Committee

From: Rob Shattuck <rdshatt@aol.com>
To: pamela.kendrick@adph.state.al.us <pamela.kendrick@adph.state.al.us>
Sent: Thu, Mar 16, 2023 6:31 pm
Subject: AL Public Health Committee evaluation of ADPH pandemic response
[Letter]
Alabama State Committee of Public Health
RSA Tower, Suite 1540
P.O. Box 303017
Montgomery, AL 36130-3017
Dear Board Members:
Your committee (https://www.boards.alabama.gov/bcPublic/bcBoardDetail.aspx?brd=34) has unanimously voted to evaluate the Alabama Department of Public Health's response to the COVID pandemic and to prepare for the next one. https://alabamareflector.com/briefs/adpd-committee-set-up-to-help-prepare-for-next-pandemic/
I wish to call to your attention that, in December 2021, I wrote an email to Gov. Ivey charging her, AG Marshall and Republican legislators in Montgomery with nonfeasance, malfeasance or moral depravity for doing everything she and they could to prevent vaccine mandates in Alabama. My email can be found at https://al6thcongdist-ihaveuntiljan13.blogspot.com/2021/12/dear-gov-ivey-re-controlling-covid.html.
Please consider what I said in my email to Gov. Ivey and consider how the Alabama Department of Public Health will be impaired in its response to the next pandemic if the Governor, the Attorney General and Republican legislators in Montgomery continue in their nonfeasance, malfeasance or moral depravity to do everything they can to prevent vaccine mandates.
Thank you for your attention to this letter.
Sincerely,
Rob Shattuck
Mountain Brook, AL

Follow up email to Alabama State Committee of Public Health
From: Rob Shattuck <rdshatt@aol.com>To: pamela.kendrick@adph.state.al.us <pamela.kendrick@adph.state.al.us>
Cc: Susana.Schuler@hearst.com, blong@hearst.com, wcromwell@cbs42.com, rmartin@cbs42.com, jason.mathews@gray.tv, jama.killingsworth@waff.com, julie@waff.com, paul.caron@whnt.com, mwright@waaytv.com, sgallien@waaytv.com, eric.duncan@fox10tv.com, Randy.Merrow@fox10tv.com, news@mynbc15.com, dsingleton@mynbc15.com, PAlbrecht@wkrg.com, clombard@wkrg.com, robby.thomas@wtvy.com, stephen.crews@wtvy.com, TCole@wdhn.com, RWare@wdhn.com, mbunting@wsfa.com, sduff@wsfa.com, ghalbrooks@alabamanews.net, jrainey@alabamanews.net, sdiorio@wvua23.com, knorred@wvua23.com, emileigh.forrester@whnt.com, emily.moessner@whnt.com, greg.screws@whnt.com, hbaker@waff.com, sean.dowling@waff.com, matthew.king@waff.com,dshaffer@waaytv.com, nwilliams@waaytv.com, mwaxel@waaytv.com, gpeterson@sbgtv.com, mgurspan@wdhn.com, eeskew@alabamanews.net, mbullock@wsfa.com, murielbailey@sbgtv.com, mkroschel@waaytv.com, oschueller@waaytv.com,
Sent: Sat, Mar 18, 2023 8:36 am
Subject: My March 16th letter regarding AL Public Health Committee evaluation of ADPH pandemic response
Dear Ms. Kendrick
This email is In follow up to my March 16th letter to the Alabama State Committee of Public Health that I sent via your email address (which letter can be found at https://al6thcongdist-ihaveuntiljan13.blogspot.com/2023/03/letter-to-al-state-public-health.html).
In the Committee's evaluation of the Alabama Department of Public Health's response to the COVID pandemic, and to prepare for the next pandemic, it seems imperative for the Committee to address the question of public trust, which public trust is under strenuous attack. See Latest Twitter Files tackle 'Great Covid-19 Lie Machine' flagging true content as 'disinformation'.
To address the question of public trust, it further seems imperative that the Committee be very public in the evaluation it makes of ADPH's response to the COVID pandemic and of what is needed to prepare for the next pandemic.
As an Alabama citizen, I will press for the Committee's being public by urging Alabama TV stations and other news media in Alabama to cover the Committee's work.
Thank you for your attention to this email.
Sincerely,
Rob Shattuck
Mountain Brook

To Business Council of Alabama: Whom can Alabamians trust?
From: Rob Shattuck <rdshatt@aol.com>
To: hduncan@bcatoday.org <hduncan@bcatoday.org>; cfranklin@bcatoday.org <cfranklin@bcatoday.org>; khope@bcatoday.org <khope@bcatoday.org>
Cc: comments@abc3340.com, programming@abc3340.com, Susana.Schuler@hearst.com, blong@hearst.com, wcromwell@cbs42.com, rmartin@cbs42.com, jason.mathews@gray.tv, jama.killingsworth@waff.com, julie@waff.com, paul.caron@whnt.com, mwright@waaytv.com, sgallien@waaytv.com, eric.duncan@fox10tv.com, Randy.Merrow@fox10tv.com, news@mynbc15.com, dsingleton@mynbc15.com, PAlbrecht@wkrg.com, clombard@wkrg.com, robby.thomas@wtvy.com, stephen.crews@wtvy.com, TCole@wdhn.com, RWare@wdhn.com, mbunting@wsfa.com, sduff@wsfa.com, ghalbrooks@alabamanews.net, jrainey@alabamanews.net, sdiorio@wvua23.com, knorred@wvua23.com, emileigh.forrester@whnt.com, emily.moessner@whnt.com, greg.screws@whnt.com, hbaker@waff.com, sean.dowling@waff.com, matthew.king@waff.com,dshaffer@waaytv.com, nwilliams@waaytv.com, mwaxel@waaytv.com, , mgurspan@wdhn.com, eeskew@alabamanews.net, mbullock@wsfa.com, murielbailey@sbgtv.com, mkroschel@waaytv.com, oschueller@waaytv.com,
Sent: Sat, Mar 18, 2023 6:35 pm
Subject: To Business Council of Alabama: Whom can Alabamians trust?
Dear Ms. Duncan, Ms. Franklin and Ms. Hope:
Whom can Alabamians trust?
https://al6thcongdist-ihaveuntiljan13.blogspot.com/2022/05/a-time-for-al-institutional-respect-and.html
https://al6thcongdist-ihaveuntiljan13.blogspot.com/2023/03/letter-to-al-state-public-health.html
Thank you.
Rob Shattuck
Mountain Brook Email to Committee
From: "Rob Shattuck" <rdshatt@aol.com>
To: "pamela.kendrick@adph.state.al.us" <pamela.kendrick@adph.state.al.us>
Cc: "drtank334@gmail.com" <drtank334@gmail.com>, "eeaton@uab.edu" <eeaton@uab.edu>, "dwilliamson@alaha.org" <dwilliamson@alaha.org>, "mjackson@alamedical.org" <mjackson@alamedical.org>, "alaarp@aarp.org" <alaarp@aarp.org>, "ccwilliams@aarp.org" <ccwilliams@aarp.org>, "robyn@alarise.org" <robyn@alarise.org>, "edasna@alabamanurses.org" <edasna@alabamanurses.org>
Date: 05/24/2023 09:17 AM
Subject: AL Public Health Committee evaluation of ADPH pandemic response
Dear Ms. Kendrick:
This email is In follow up to my March 16th and March 18th communications to the Alabama State Committee of Public Health that I sent via your email address (and which communications can be found at https://al6thcongdist-ihaveuntiljan13.blogspot.com/2023/03/letter-to-al-state-public-health.html).
Where does the Committee's evaluation of the Alabama Department of Public Health's response to the COVID pandemic (and preparation for the next pandemic) stand?
Have there been any meetings of the Committee? Whom has the Committee contacted to get information? Is there a report being written? Is it ok if I contact some of the Committee members directly?
Yesterday, Dr. Stewart Tankersley published an article "Evidence to counter Scott Harris’ COVID-19 tactics" (posted at https://1819news.com/news/item/dr-stewart-tankersley-evidence-to-counter-scott-harris-covid-19-tactics).
I would like to think there are numerous professionals and organizations in Alabama who have great interest relative to ADPH's response to the pandemic (and preparing for the next pandemic), and I hope they are having input to the Committee. (Some of these professionals and organizations are copied on this email.)
Also I have communicated to Alabama chambers of commerce and Alabama TV stations about the Committee's work. I think the TV stations should want to report to their viewers about what the Committee concludes about ADPH's response to the COVID pandemic and what the Committee thinks should be done to prepare for the next pandemic. I think the Committee should publicize to Alabama TV stations the Committee's conclusions (when they are reached), which I will try to do as well.
Thank you.
Rob Shattuck
Mountain Brook

Reply to Pamela Kendrick
From: Rob Shattuck <rdshatt@aol.com>
To: Pamela.Kendrick@adph.state.al.us <Pamela.Kendrick@adph.state.al.us>
Cc: drtank334@gmail.com <drtank334@gmail.com>; eeaton@uab.edu <eeaton@uab.edu>; dwilliamson@alaha.org <dwilliamson@alaha.org>; mjackson@alamedical.org <mjackson@alamedical.org>; alaarp@aarp.org <alaarp@aarp.org>; ccwilliams@aarp.org <ccwilliams@aarp.org>; robyn@alarise.org <robyn@alarise.org>; edasna@alabamanurses.org <edasna@alabamanurses.org>
Sent: Thu, May 25, 2023 9:03 am
Subject: Re: AL Public Health Committee evaluation of ADPH pandemic response
Thank you for replying to me, Ms. Kendrick.
I look forward to learning more about the Committee's evaluation of the Alabama Department of Public Health's response to the COVID pandemic (and preparation for the next pandemic).
If I may, I would like to suggest that Committee members, if they have not already done so, read Scott Gottlieb's Uncontrolled Spread: Why COVID-19 Crushed Us and How We Can Defeat the Next Pandemic and also Dr. Birx's just published book Silent Invasion: The Untold Story of the Trump Administration, Covid-19, and Preventing the Next Pandemic Before It's Too Late.
Further, I think the Committee should think long about what Supreme Court Justice Gorsuch recently said, to wit, the following:
“Fear and the desire for safety are powerful forces. They can lead to a clamor for action — almost any action — as long as someone does something to address a perceived threat. . . . A leader or an expert who claims he can fix everything, if only we do exactly as he says, can prove an irresistible force" and “the concentration of power in the hands of so few may be efficient and sometimes popular.” https://nypost.com/2023/05/20/neil-gorsuch-rips-covid-19-policies-as-intrusion-on-civil-liberties/
Sincerely,
Rob Shattuck

More emails
From: Rob Shattuck <rdshatt@aol.com>
To: drtank334@gmail.com <drtank334@gmail.com>
Cc: pamela.kendrick@adph.state.al.us <pamela.kendrick@adph.state.al.us>; eeaton@uab.edu <eeaton@uab.edu>; dwilliamson@alaha.org <dwilliamson@alaha.org>; mjackson@alamedical.org <mjackson@alamedical.org>; ccwilliams@aarp.org <ccwilliams@aarp.org>; robyn@alarise.org <robyn@alarise.org>; edasna@alabamanurses.org <edasna@alabamanurses.org>
Sent: Fri, May 26, 2023 10:20 am
Subject: Re: AL Public Health Committee evaluation of ADPH pandemic response
Thank you for your further email mentioning additional books the Alabama State Committee of Public Health might consult in making its evaluation of the Alabama Department of Public Health's response to the COVID pandemic (and preparing for the next pandemic).
I will work to try to get interested parties in Alabama to provide input for the Committee's deliberations.
Rob Shattuck
From: Stewart Tankersley <drtank334@gmail.com>
To: Rob Shattuck <rdshatt@aol.com>
Sent: Thu, May 25, 2023 6:45 pm
Subject: Re: AL Public Health Committee evaluation of ADPH pandemic response
Those books promote the lies I'm sure.
Why not books like RFK, Jrs The Real Anthony Fauci, or Peter McCullough's The courage to face COVID, or Ed Dowd's Cause Unknown or Rbt Malone's book......
From: Rob Shattuck <rdshatt@aol.com>
To: drtank334@gmail.com <drtank334@gmail.com>
Cc: pamela.kendrick@adph.state.al.us <pamela.kendrick@adph.state.al.us>; eeaton@uab.edu <eeaton@uab.edu>; dwilliamson@alaha.org <dwilliamson@alaha.org>; mjackson@alamedical.org <mjackson@alamedical.org>; alaarp@aarp.org <alaarp@aarp.org>; ccwilliams@aarp.org <ccwilliams@aarp.org>; robyn@alarise.org <robyn@alarise.org>; edasna@alabamanurses.org <edasna@alabamanurses.org>
Sent: Thu, May 25, 2023 6:21 pm
Subject: Re: AL Public Health Committee evaluation of ADPH pandemic response
Thank you for asking your question about the Gottlieb and Birx books.
My answer to your question is that I think members of the Committee should investigate the books sufficiently to decide whether they think the books will be of value to the Committee in making its evaluation of the Alabama Department of Public Health's response to the COVID pandemic (and preparing for the next pandemic), and for the Committee to avail of the books accordingly.
If you think the books will be not be of value to the Committee, you should tell the Committee why you think that.
Sincerely,
Rob Shattuck
-----Original Message-----
From: Stewart Tankersley <drtank334@gmail.com>
To: Rob Shattuck <rdshatt@aol.com>
Sent: Thu, May 25, 2023 10:42 am
Subject: Re: AL Public Health Committee evaluation of ADPH pandemic response
Why do you think Gotlieb and Birx would be of value?
ST

Email to Committee members providing my input for their consideration
From: Rob Shattuck <rdshatt@aol.com>
To: pamela.kendrick@adph.state.al.us <pamela.kendrick@adph.state.al.us>
Cc: drtank334@gmail.com <drtank334@gmail.com>; eeaton@uab.edu <eeaton@uab.edu>; dwilliamson@alaha.org <dwilliamson@alaha.org>; mjackson@alamedical.org <mjackson@alamedical.org>; ccwilliams@aarp.org <ccwilliams@aarp.org>; robyn@alarise.org <robyn@alarise.org>; edasna@alabamanurses.org <edasna@alabamanurses.org>
Sent: Sat, Jun 3, 2023 8:43 am
Subject: My input for evaluating ADPH COVID-19 response
Dear Alabama State Committee of Public Health members:
The COVID-19 pandemic was immensely harmful to Alabama in numerous ways.
There are continuing very bad after effects from the pandemic. These include serious disruptions in the education of Alabama children and damage to their mental health, plus a big inflation problem in the economy resulting from the pandemic.
For better or worse, work arrangements in the economy may be permanently altered.
With the COVID-19 pandemic wreaking so much havoc, there was and continues to be great finger pointing about who or what is to blame for the harms that have been caused, and what could have been done for the harms to be less. This finger pointing has greatly added to the political and cultural polarization in the United States, and Alabama politics and governance have been further impaired in the increased polarization.
In this situation, the Alabama State Committee of Public Health is conducting an evaluation of the Alabama Department of Public Health's response to the COVID-19 pandemic (and for preparing for the next pandemic).
Such evaluation is important for (i) trying to help decide what should be the Alabama governmental response if and when there is another pandemic, and (ii) addressing the finger pointing of who is to blame for the pandemic and harms it has caused, and the impairment of Alabama politics and governance from the increased polarization caused by the pandemic.
I offer the following for the consideration of the Committee in doing its evaluation:
I. General principles of government
Government has the purpose of keeping citizens safe and protecting their health and welfare.
Public officials are agents of the government who have authorities and responsibilities for acting to fulfill said government purpose.
The authority of public officials may include requiring citizens to do things (or refrain from doing things) to keep the public safe and protect the public's health and welfare.
Citizens have obligations to do (or refrain from doing) what public officials decide that citizens should do (or shall refrain from doing).
In deciding on their actions, public officials have uncertain knowledge relative to possible actions, and the public officials must make decisions in the face of uncertain knowledge.
Uncertain knowledge can produce great disagreement about the actions the public officials should take.
In the public officials' decision making process, personal interests and partisan political interests may improperly affect the decision making process.
Misinformation may be in circulation (mistakenly or intentionally), and such misinformation can make more difficult the public officials' decision making.
Further, knowledge and conditions change over time, and this calls for ongoing review by public officials of their decisions and actions.
The Committee's evaluation of the ADPH response to the COVID-19 pandemic should include applying the foregoing principles to the specific COVID-19 situation.
II. My application of the general principles to the specific COVID-19 situation
A. Gov. Ivey, AG Marshall, other GOP officials, failed their public responsibilities
I contend Gov. Ivey, Attorney General Marshall and GOP legislators in Montgomery failed their public responsibilities in the COVID-19 pandemic, mainly in the form of the opposition to any and all vaccine mandates. I explain this contention further at https://al6thcongdist-ihaveuntiljan13.blogspot.com/2021/12/dear-gov-ivey-re-controlling-covid.html. I have widely sought other parties to refute my contention, and there has been no refutation proffered. The Committee should endeavor to decide whether it agrees with my contention.
B. 2020 was a desperate year
COVID-19 overwhelmed the United States in 2020. Battling COVID-19 was beset with huge problems.
A strategy of identifying and isolating infected persons by means of testing and doing contact tracing to identify and isolate other infected persons was soon seen as hopeless for containing COVID-19, due to grossly inadequate testing and contact tracing capability in the early days of the pandemic, and COVID-19 rapidly spreading and getting out of control for any testing and contact tracing strategy.
With COVID-19 beyond control by testing and contact tracing, and with no vaccine, containment by shutdowns and stay at home orders was initiated.
Inadequate knowledge about COVID-19 was a problem for the containment efforts. Initially, transmission was thought to be mainly via the virus being on surfaces, humans touching the surfaces, and fingers touching the mouth or food for the virus to get into the body, which led to massive cleaning operations in facilities that humans needed to occupy. Subsequently airborne transmission was concluded to be primary. That gave rise to social distancing and masking protocols. With masks, it took time to learn whether transmission of the virus was only via larger droplets from sneezing and coughing that fell quickly to the ground and for which lesser grades of masks could block transmission, or whether smaller airborne particles could carry the virus, stay airborne longer, and for which better masks were required.
Preventing airborne transmission focused attention on upgrading inadequate ventilation systems, such as in schools.
During 2020, it was learned that the elderly and immune compromised persons were much more vulnerable, and serious illness and deaths were much less in the rest of the population. Thought was given to segregating the vulnerable population, and having the rest of the population return to their pre-pandemic lives. Even though the risk of serious illness and death was low for a large segment of the population, the risk was not zero, people still had fears, and public officials in the United States did not in 2020 implement programs to segregate the more vulnerable segments of the population and for the rest of the population to return to their pre-pandemic lives.
With serious illness and death from COVID-19 being the first matter of concern in 2020, little weight was given in 2020 to the possible long term adverse psychological and social effects of shut downs and stay at home protocols and to the learning loss risks.
B. Operation Warp Speed
In the desperate year of 2020, the great hope for the United States to win the battle against COVID-19 was Trump's "Operation Warp Speed," which sought to develop a vaccine within one year, something that was unprecedented in the history of vaccines in which vaccines took years to develop.
"Operation Warp Speed" was spectacular. A vaccine was ready by the end of 2020 and most everyone believed that the way for the United States to win the battle against COVID-19, get the economy going again, and return to pre-pandemic lives, was for as many Americans as possible to get vaccinated as fast as possible.
A problem arose, however, that Trump lost the 2020 election and the Republicans were a badly defeated political party. In their defeat the Republicans did not want Biden and the Democrats to get the political benefit of being the party in power that oversaw the United States winning the battle against COVID-19 by getting as many Americans vaccinated as fast as possible, and the Republicans endeavored to obstruct Biden and the Democrats in getting as many Americans vaccinated as fast as possible.
This obstruction by the Republicans took various forms. Republicans urged people to claim vaccination violated their religious beliefs and to refuse to get vaccinated on that basis. Republicans sought to get people to refuse vaccination on the grounds that the CDC was not adequately recognizing natural immunity and that getting Americans vaccinated as fast as possible should be slowed down to accommodate individual claims of natural immunity. The Republicans tried to halt vaccinations due to the existence of small risks of adverse reactions to the vaccine. The Republicans were probably guilty of spreading disinformation and misinformation in order to impede getting as many Americans vaccinated as possible and as fast as possible. In Alabama, the obstruction took the form of prohibiting any and all vaccine mandates.
It is the foregoing obstruction by the Republicans that is the chief ground for my contention that Gov. Ivey, Attorney General Marshall and GOP legislators in Montgomery failed their public responsibilities in the COVID-19 pandemic, as I I explain at https://al6thcongdist-ihaveuntiljan13.blogspot.com/2021/12/dear-gov-ivey-re-controlling-covid.html.
C. The Committee has a daunting task
I submit that the Committee has a very daunting task to make a constructive contribution to (i) deciding what should be the Alabama governmental response if and when there is another pandemic, and (ii) addressing the finger pointing of who is to blame for the pandemic and harms it has caused, and the impairment of Alabama politics and governance from the increased polarization caused by the finger pointing.
D. Getting views of others
On my emails to you, including this email, I have copied parties who I think should want to express themselves to the Committee relative to the evaluation the Committee is trying to make about ADPH's response to the COVID-19 pandemic. None of those parties have said anything to me on the matter. I would ask them to at least tell me whether they think I should continue to press the Committee here or whether I should drop the matter.
I will contact other parties who I think may have something to offer the Committee.
The Committee should seek a conversation with Attorney General Marshall for him to refute my contention that he, Gov. Ivey, and GOP legislators in Montgomery failed their public responsibilities in the COVID-19 pandemic.
Thank you.
Sincerely,
Rob Shattuck
Mountain Brook
For filing in https://al6thcongdist-ihaveuntiljan13.blogspot.com/2023/03/letter-to-al-state-public-health.html.

Email to Dean Erwin of UAB School of Public Health
From: Rob Shattuck <rdshatt@aol.com>
To: perwin@uab.edu <perwin@uab.edu>
Cc: mkwhite@uab.edu <mkwhite@uab.edu>; pamela.kendrick@adph.state.al.us <pamela.kendrick@adph.state.al.us>
Sent: Mon, Jun 5, 2023 7:46 am
Subject: Will UAB SOPH make submission to AL Public Health Committee re pandemic response evaluation?
Dear Dean Erwin,
Your Dean's page says the following:
Throughout the COVID-19 pandemic, public health leaders from our school have provided expert guidance to the University of Alabama System and UAB regarding COVID-19 related policies and procedures; we have been engaged in regular consultations with the Jefferson County Health Department in Birmingham, as well as with the Alabama Department of Public Health (ADPH); and we have supported the work of ADPH through our school’s Case Investigation/Contact Tracing activities, the establishment of a Regional Center for Infection Prevention and Control, and our management of COVID-19 testing in K-12 schools across the state.
The Alabama State Committee of Public Health is currently conducting an evaluation of the Alabama Department of Public Health's response to the COVID pandemic and to prepare for the next one. https://alabamareflector.com/briefs/adpd-committee-set-up-to-help-prepare-for-next-pandemic/
On Saturday, I sent the below email to the Committee, and I have had other communications with the Committee that are set out at https://al6thcongdist-ihaveuntiljan13.blogspot.com/2023/03/letter-to-al-state-public-health.html.
Will the School of Public Health make a submission to the Committee relative to the Committee's evaluation of the ADPH pandemic response? Has a submission already been made? If so, might I be provided a copy of the submission? Is there anything else you can provide to me or refer me to, for use by me in my own communications to the Committee?
Thank you for your attention to this email.
Sincerely,
Rob Shattuck
Mountain Brook
[Referenced "below email" is above Email to Committee members providing my input for their consideration]

Email from ADPH general counsel
From: Brian.Hale@adph.state.al.us
To: Rob Shattuck <rdshatt@aol.com>
Sent: Wed, Jun 7, 2023 10:50 am
Subject: My input for evaluating ADPH COVID-19 response
Dear Mr. Shattuck:
As noted in your prior email, a motion to form an ad hoc committee to study Alabama’s response to the COVID-19 pandemic and preparedness plans for future pandemics was approved at the March 16, 2023, meeting of the State Committee of Public Health(SCPH). There is currently no established timeline for completion of the ad hoc committee's work. The information you have shared is being supplied to the Chairman of the SCPH for distribution to the ad hoc committee's members. Additional information you would like the committee to consider as part of its study may be sent to me, rather than to Mrs. Kendrick.
Sincerely,
Brian
_________________________________
P. Brian Hale
General Counsel
Alabama Department of Public Health
201 Monroe Street, Suite 1540
Montgomery, Alabama 36104
(T): 334-206-5209
brian.hale@adph.state.al.us

Reply email to P. Brian Hale, General Counsel, Alabama Department of Public Health
From: Rob Shattuck <rdshatt@aol.com>
To: Brian.Hale@adph.state.al.us <brian.hale@adph.state.al.us>
Cc: dwilliamson@alaha.org <dwilliamson@alaha.org>; mjackson@alamedical.org <mjackson@alamedical.org>; ccwilliams@aarp.org <ccwilliams@aarp.org>; robyn@alarise.org <robyn@alarise.org>; edasna@alabamanurses.org <edasna@alabamanurses.org>; Stewart Tankersley <drtank334@gmail.com>; perwin@uab.edu <perwin@uab.edu>; eeaton@uab.edu <eeaton@uab.edu>; rdfriend@ua.edu <rdfriend@ua.edu>; mmontgomery1@ua.edu <mmontgomery1@ua.edu>; bak0020@auburn.edu <bak0020@auburn.edu>; gen0002@auburn.edu <gen0002@auburn.edu>; arocha@alabamareflector.com <arocha@alabamareflector.com>; wthornton@al.com <wthornton@al.com>; todd@aldailynews.com <todd@aldailynews.com>; will@wbhm.org <will@wbhm.org>
Sent: Thursday, June 29, 2023 at 10:29:59 AM CDT
Subject: Re: My input for evaluating ADPH COVID-19 response
Hello Brian.
Thank you very much for your email and for supplying my information to the Chairman of the State Committee of Public Health (SCPH).
The polarization over the COVID-19 pandemic response greatly affected what that response was at the time. Such polarization over the response has continued and feeds into the increasing polarization in the United States generally. Unless a way is found to lessen the polarization over the response, it will have great effect on preparing for and responding to the next pandemic.
The COVID-19 pandemic affected everyone, and everyone had an interest in the response by the government and public health authorities. It is likely to be similarly so if and when there is a next pandemic.
The parties to whom I have sent emails regarding SCPH's study of the pandemic response have a special position vis a vis the COVID-19 and any future pandemic response, and those parties should want for SCPH's study to be done well and also should want to provide their own information to the SCPH regarding the study.
I don't know whether any of said parties have contacted or will contact the SCPH regarding its study, and I may never know.
At this juncture, please consider this email (and other communications from me) as "for the record" of my contacting Alabama parties who should be interested in the study being done well, and their choosing to provide or not provide information to contribute to the SCPH doing a good job.
Insofar as partisan politics detrimentally corrupted the COVID-19 response and has the potential to undermine the SCPH's study, I hope the news media in Alabama will closely cover what the SCPH does in carrying out its study.
Sincerely,
Rob Shattuck
Mountain Brook

Email to Vestavia Hills Mayor, City Council and Chief of Police
From: Rob Shattuck <rdshatt@aol.com>
To: acurry@vhal.org <acurry@vhal.org>; rweaver@vhal.org <rweaver@vhal.org>; kcook@vhal.org <kcook@vhal.org>; phead@vhal.org <phead@vhal.org>; gpierce@vhal.org <gpierce@vhal.org>; jdownes@vhal.org <jdownes@vhal.org>
Cc: brian.hale@adph.state.al.us <brian.hale@adph.state.al.us>; Moms Demand Action Alabama <alabama@momschapterleaders.org>
Sent: Thursday, July 20, 2023 at 06:33:08 PM CDT
Subject: AG Marshall and fallen Vestavia Hills Police Officer Darryl Fortner
Dear Mayor Curry; City Councilors Weaver, Cook, Head, and Pierce; City Manager Downes; and Police Chief Rary:
A Vestavia Hills Police Department Facebook post from earlier this week (https://www.facebook.com/vestaviahillspolice) reported that Alabama Attorney General Steve Marshall made a presentation to the family of fallen Vestavia Hills Police Officer Darryl Fortner of a Certificate of "Devoted and Faithful Service." The Facebook post said, "General Marshall and his staff have worked tirelessly to support the family of Officer Fortner".
According to https://www.odmp.org/officer/reflections/26160-police-officer-darryl-wayne-fortner/25, Officer Fortner died as a result of complications from COVID-19.
I offer to you the following comments regarding (i) AG Marshall and the COVID-19 pandemic (to which Officer Fortner's death is attributable), and (ii) AG Marshall and guns and gun violence in Alabama.
COVID-19 pandemic
I have charged AG Marshall with moral depravity in his opposition to vaccine mandates. My basis for this is set out at https://al6thcongdist-ihaveuntiljan13.blogspot.com/2021/12/dear-gov-ivey-re-controlling-covid.html. AG Marshall has not responded to my charge.
In this regard, please note that the Alabama State Committee of Public Health (SCPH) has undertaken to study and evaluate the Alabama Department of Health's response to the COVID-19 pandemic, and preparedness plans for future pandemics. See https://al6thcongdist-ihaveuntiljan13.blogspot.com/2023/03/letter-to-al-state-public-health.html.
As the foregoing link indicates, I have made my own citizen's input to SCPH (including urging SCPH to interview AG Marshall), and I have contacted numerous Alabama parties who should be interested in SCPH's study being done well and solicited such parties to provide their own input to SCPH. I would like to think that the Vestavia Hills police department and the Mayor and City Council would want SCPH to do its study well.
[This email will be filed in https://al6thcongdist-ihaveuntiljan13.blogspot.com/2023/03/letter-to-al-state-public-health.html].
Guns and gun violence
In May AG Marshall spoke at the Alabama Law Enforcement Memorial. See https://twitter.com/ChiefBPartridge/status/1659619666946342923.
I sent an email to Oxford Police Chief Partridge saying that I thought there was a need for public official declarations that the Second Amendment does not give citizens the right to bear arms against the police. I elaborated on this to Chief Partridge, saying the following:
I think many citizens believe that the Second Amendment gives them a right to stockpile weapons for use against the government for if and when those citizens think the government has become tyrannical, and believe that the Second Amendment prohibits the government from protecting itself against citizens who would use weapons to attack the government.
I contend those beliefs are mistaken.
It is one thing for citizens to have, and to act on or try to act on, those mistaken beliefs.
It is another thing for public officials, who have taken oaths of office to preserve, protect and defend th constitution and the rule of law, to have such mistaken beliefs and to act on such mistaken beliefs, such as by not contradicting citizens who have the mistaken beliefs and by encouraging citizens in their mistaken beliefs.
I think AG Marshall may have such mistaken beliefs, and he is unwilling to contradict Alabamians who have the mistaken beliefs.
I am trying to implement the foregoing perspective by asking city councils in Alabama to lead against gun violence in Alabama by passing declaratory resolutions along the lines of the "Declaration of public officials for gun violence prevention" set out at https://al6thcongdist-ihaveuntiljan13.blogspot.com/2022/09/declaration-of-public-officials-for-gun.html. My efforts in this regard are indicated at https://al6thcongdist-ihaveuntiljan13.blogspot.com/2023/05/working-to-grow-alabama-public-opinion.html. (Said link also shows my email to Oxford Police Chief Partridge.)
I urge the Vestavia Hills city council to consider passing the above suggested resolution.
[This email will be filed in https://al6thcongdist-ihaveuntiljan13.blogspot.com/2023/05/working-to-grow-alabama-public-opinion.html]
Thank you for your attention to this email.
Sincerely,
Rob Shattuck
Mountain Brook
Email to Brian Hale re "How will State Public Health Committee deal with Trump's 'We will not comply'?"
From: Rob Shattuck <rdshatt@aol.com>
To: brian.hale@adph.state.al.us <brian.hale@adph.state.al.us>
Cc: drtank334@gmail.com <drtank334@gmail.com>; eeaton@uab.edu <eeaton@uab.edu>; dwilliamson@alaha.org <dwilliamson@alaha.org>; mjackson@alamedical.org <mjackson@alamedical.org>; ccwilliams@aarp.org <ccwilliams@aarp.org>; robyn@alarise.org <robyn@alarise.org>; edasna@alabamanurses.org <edasna@alabamanurses.org>; perwin@uab.edu <perwin@uab.edu>; mkwhite@uab.edu <mkwhite@uab.edu>; rdfriend@ua.edu <rdfriend@ua.edu>; mmontgomery1@ua.edu <mmontgomery1@ua.edu>; bak0020@auburn.edu <bak0020@auburn.edu>; gen0002@auburn.edu <gen0002@auburn.edu>; arocha@alabamareflector.com <arocha@alabamareflector.com>; wthornton@al.com <wthornton@al.com>; todd@aldailynews.com <todd@aldailynews.com>; will@wbhm.org <will@wbhm.org>; dale@yellowhammernews.com <dale@yellowhammernews.com>; yaffee@yellowhammernews.com <yaffee@yellowhammernews.com>; will.blakely@1819news.com <will.blakely@1819news.com>; erica.thomas@1819news.com <erica.thomas@1819news.com>; larry.stutts@alsensate.gov <larry.stutts@alsensate.gov>; admin@alabamapolicy.org <admin@alabamapolicy.org>
Sent: Friday, September 8, 2023 at 07:00:53 PM CDT
Subject: How will State Public Health Committee deal with Trump's "We will not comply"?
Dear Brian,
The Republicans have been attacking the institution of Public Health for three years.
Trump's current assault is "COVID Tyrants want to take away our Freedom. Hear my words— WE WILL NOT COMPLY." https://twitter.com/TeamTrump/status/1696931890555429249
Trump is the 800 pound gorilla pounding on the institution of Public Health.
Alabama has numerous pygmies seeking to undermine Public Health in Alabama. I have collected some of them at https://al6thcongdist-ihaveuntiljan13.blogspot.com/2023/03/letter-to-al-state-public-health.html (and am copying them on this email).
I have tried to draw in Alabama parties who I believe are committed to Public Health in Alabama (and who are indicated in the foregoing link), but none have spoken up to my knowledge. Perhaps these parties don't think the Alabama State Public Health Committee will be able to do a respectable job of evaluating the ADPH COVID-19 pandemic response and putting forth how to respond to the next pandemic, and they are not bothering to speak up for that reason. (These parties are also copied on this email.)
I am dubious of the Committee being able to make a respectable evaluation of the ADPH COVID-19 pandemic response and putting forth how to respond to the next pandemic.
I think there is a chance for the Committee if the Committee can persuade Gov. Ivey that her full and open minded involvement is imperative for the Committee to be able to do a respectable job.
Finally, I continue to hope that some of those in the news media in Alabama will stay on top of the Committee's work, and they also are copied on this email.
Sincerely,
Rob Shattuck
Email re Sen. Britt's bill against mask mandates & ADPH's pandemic response
From: Rob Shattuck <rdshatt@aol.com>
To: brian.hale@adph.state.al.us <brian.hale@adph.state.al.us>
Cc: mbunting@wsfa.com <mbunting@wsfa.com>; drtank334@gmail.com <drtank334@gmail.com>; eeaton@uab.edu <eeaton@uab.edu>; dwilliamson@alaha.org <dwilliamson@alaha.org>; mjackson@alamedical.org <mjackson@alamedical.org>; ccwilliams@aarp.org <ccwilliams@aarp.org>; robyn@alarise.org <robyn@alarise.org>; edasna@alabamanurses.org <edasna@alabamanurses.org>; perwin@uab.edu <perwin@uab.edu>; mkwhite@uab.edu <mkwhite@uab.edu>; rdfriend@ua.edu <rdfriend@ua.edu>; mmontgomery1@ua.edu <mmontgomery1@ua.edu>; bak0020@auburn.edu <bak0020@auburn.edu>; gen0002@auburn.edu <gen0002@auburn.edu>; arocha@alabamareflector.com <arocha@alabamareflector.com>; wthornton@al.com <wthornton@al.com>; todd@aldailynews.com <todd@aldailynews.com>; will@wbhm.org <will@wbhm.org>; dale@yellowhammernews.com <dale@yellowhammernews.com>; yaffee@yellowhammernews.com <yaffee@yellowhammernews.com>; will.blakely@1819news.com <will.blakely@1819news.com>; erica.thomas@1819news.com <erica.thomas@1819news.com>; admin@alabamapolicy.org <admin@alabamapolicy.org>; larry.stutts@alsenate.gov <larry.stutts@alsenate.gov>
Sent: Sunday, September 10, 2023 at 06:13:06 PM CDT
Subject: Sen. Britt's bill against mask mandates & ADPH's pandemic response
Dear Brian,
This quick further email is prompted by Sen. Britt's co-sponsoring a bill against mask mandates this past Thursday (reported by WSFA 12 News at https://www.wsfa.com/2023/09/07/sen-britt-co-sponsors-bill-against-mask-mandates/).
Early Friday morning, JT of 105.5 WERC texted Sen. Britt for an interview; Sen. Britt immediately responded; and a 7:30 am interview took place lasting 8 minutes. The interview can be heard at https://wercfm.iheart.com/featured/alabama-s-morning-news-with-jt/content/2023-09-08-fighting-against-covid-mandates/. Sen. Britt emphasized how her bill was to to protect freedom and liberty.
I think the Alabama State Public Health Committee should persuade Sen. Britt (as well as Gov. Ivey whom I mentioned in my Friday email to you) to fully involve herself with the Committee's evaluation of the ADPH COVID-19 pandemic response and what the Committee puts forth about how to respond to the next pandemic.
In making this suggestion, I mention a couple things.
On mask mandates, a week ago Smerconish had an interview with Dr, Fauci regarding the Cochrane study of the effectiveness of masks, which interview sparked a lot of comment during the week. Yesterday Smerconish had a follow up interview with Dr. Tom Jefferson, lead author of the Cohrane study. This interview can be seen at https://www.cnn.com/videos/health/2023/09/09/smr-mask-study-doctor-uncertainty.cnn. The Committee should carefully consider the foregoing interviews.
As regards Sen. Britt emphasizing the protection of freedom and liberty, under the system of Federal and state governments in the United States, citizens do not have absolute freedom and liberty; a main function of the government is to protect the health and safety of its citizens; and such may entail the government restricting the freedom and liberty of citizens in order to protect the health and safety of the citizens.
In this regard, I pick as an example an August 28th episode of WSFA 12 News' Investigate TV series that is entitled "Defective: Dangerous consumer products find their way into America by ship and through online retailers A small federal agency is charged with stopping these products before they reach consumers", which episode can be found at Defective: Dangerous consumer products find their way into America by ship and through online retailers – InvestigateTV. As the episode shows, the Consumer Products Safety Commission extensively limits the freedom and liberty of manufacturers and distributors regarding the products they manufacture and sell, for the purpose of protecting citizens.
In JT's interview of Sen. Britt, I don't think there was adequate discussion of the tension between, on the one hand, allowing freedom and liberty and, on the other hand, the government's function of protecting health and safety of the citizens by restricting freedom and liberty of citizens.
I think WSFA 12 News, which reported on Sen. Britt's bill, should, through editorializing or otherwise, impart to its viewers how freedom and liberty need to be balanced against the government protecting the health and safety of the citizens, such as regarding mask mandates or not. To push that forward, I am copying Mark Bunting, General Manager of WSFA 12, on this email. (I will also try to notify JT about this email.)
Further it should be noted there is a public relations component to the Committee's work, and the Committee should be concerned about Alabamians hearing only the JT/Sen. Britt perspective that emphasizes protecting freedom and liberty, and not hear adequately about the role of government to protect the health and safety of the citizens.
I am trying to get the Committee's work covered by the Alabama news media and for that news media to impart to Alabamians the government's role of protecting health and safety, as well as protecting freedom and liberty.
More significantly, mask mandates, or not, are only part of responding to the COVID-19 pandemic and are only part of putting forth what to do in the next pandemic. Adding this email to https://al6thcongdist-ihaveuntiljan13.blogspot.com/2023/03/letter-to-al-state-public-health.html will add emphasis to how hard the Committee's job is.
Finally, I will contact Sen. Britt's office to tell them about the Committee's work and to urge that Sen. Britt involve herself in the Committee's work.
Thank you for receiving this further email from me.
Sincerely,
Rob Shattuck

Contacted Sen. Britt's office on 9/15/23
[Using the contact form on Sen. Britt's website https://www.britt.senate.gov/share-your-opinion/, I sent th below email to Sen. Britt on 9/15/23.]
Topic: Health Care (Including Medicare/Medicaid)
Dear Senator Britt,
The Alabama State Public Health Committee is conducting an evaluation of the Alabama Department of Public Health's response to the COVID-19 pandemic and preparing for the next pandemic. For more information, please read https://al6thcongdist-ihaveuntiljan13.blogspot.com/2023/03/letter-to-al-state-public-health.html
I think you should submit your views to the Committee on this subject, taking particularly into account your recent co-sponsorship of a bill to prohibit mask mandates. Although you are not a state official, as United States Senator, you have significant legal and political influence regarding what the Alabama Department of Health can and/or should do if there is another pandemic in Alabama.
Thank you.

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Email: "Please tell me why State Public Health Committee should not abandon its pandemic response evaluation"
From: Rob Shattuck <rdshatt@aol.com>
To: mbunting@wsfa.com <mbunting@wsfa.com>; drtank334@gmail.com <drtank334@gmail.com>; eeaton@uab.edu <eeaton@uab.edu>; dwilliamson@alaha.org <dwilliamson@alaha.org>; mjackson@alamedical.org <mjackson@alamedical.org>; ccwilliams@aarp.org <ccwilliams@aarp.org>; robyn@alarise.org <robyn@alarise.org>; edasna@alabamanurses.org <edasna@alabamanurses.org>; perwin@uab.edu <perwin@uab.edu>; mkwhite@uab.edu <mkwhite@uab.edu>; rdfriend@ua.edu <rdfriend@ua.edu>; mmontgomery1@ua.edu <mmontgomery1@ua.edu>; bak0020@auburn.edu <bak0020@auburn.edu>; gen0002@auburn.edu <gen0002@auburn.edu>; arocha@alabamareflector.com <arocha@alabamareflector.com>; wthornton@al.com <wthornton@al.com>; todd@aldailynews.com <todd@aldailynews.com>; will@wbhm.org <will@wbhm.org>; dale@yellowhammernews.com <dale@yellowhammernews.com>; yaffee@yellowhammernews.com <yaffee@yellowhammernews.com>; will.blakely@1819news.com <will.blakely@1819news.com>; erica.thomas@1819news.com <erica.thomas@1819news.com>; admin@alabamapolicy.org <admin@alabamapolicy.org>; larry.stutts@alsenate.gov <larry.stutts@alsenate.gov>
Sent: Tuesday, January 2, 2024 at 06:25:15 PM CST
Subject: Please tell me why State Public Health Committee should not abandon its pandemic response evaluation
The evaluation of the Alabama Department of Public Health's response to the COVID pandemic that the Alabama State Committee of Public Health is currently conducting (with a view to preparation for the next pandemic) is of great importance for public health in Alabama.
I have tried to provide input to the Committee's evaluation, including soliciting input from parties with a bona fide public health motivation and also parties with a political agenda. These include parties to whom this email is addressed (and to whom previous emails have been addressed). I have maintained a record of this at https://al6thcongdist-ihaveuntiljan13.blogspot.com/2023/03/letter-to-al-state-public-health.html.
To me it seems certain that politics will prevent the State Committee of Public Health from making a respectable evaluation of the ADPH pandemic response. In particular, it seems certain that influential parties with a political agenda will not reasonably engage with the Committee and will attack any respectable evaluation that the Committee makes and undermine the evaluation in the eyes of the public so that it does not have the trust of the public. In this regard, please consider article "COVID fallout response likely to continue at the Alabama State House in 2024" at https://1819news.com/news/item/covid-fallout-response-likely-to-continue-at-the-alabama-statehouse-in-2024
In these circumstances, I think the Committee should cease its effort to make an evaluation of the pandemic response and make a public declaration that politics prevents the Committee from making a respectable evaluation that will have the trust of the public and place the blame for this situation on the politicians, who will need to answer to the public.
Sincerely,
Rob Shattuck
Mountain Brook

Email re reinstating mask mandates in hospitals
From: Rob Shattuck <rdshatt@aol.com>
To: james.giles@wbrc.com <james.giles@wbrc.com>
Cc: ltgov@ltgov.alabama.gov <ltgov@ltgov.alabama.gov>
Sent: Saturday, January 6, 2024 at 05:23:55 PM CST
Subject: "Several states reinstate mask mandates in hospitals; Health leaders weigh in on if Alabama should follow suit"
Dear Mr. Giles,
This email is prompted by your above article posted at https://www.fox10tv.com/2024/01/05/several-states-reinstate-mask-mandates-hospitals-health-leaders-weigh-if-alabama-should-follow-suit/ and by Will Ainsworth's tweet of your article at https://twitter.com/willainsworthAL/status/1743269997873357071 saying, "Not in Alabama, never again."
I would very much like for you to read the below email I sent on Tuesday, having the subject line "Please tell me why State Public Health Committee should not abandon its pandemic response evaluation" and, after you read the email, I would like to have a phone conversation with you regarding same. Please let me know if we can have a phone conversation.
Thank you.
Rob Shattuck
Mountain Brook

Email for Alexander Willis
From: Rob Shattuck <rdshatt@aol.com>
To: todd@aldailynews.com <todd@aldailynews.com>
Cc: james.giles@wbrc.com <james.giles@wbrc.com>; ltgov@ltgov.alabama.gov <ltgov@ltgov.alabama.gov>
Sent: Wednesday, January 10, 2024 at 01:16:26 AM CST
Subject: State Health Department proposes rule change for emergencies
For Alexander Willis re above article published at https://aldailynews.com/public-health-dept-proposes-rule-change-for-emergencies/
As with James Giles at WBRC (per below email to him), I would like to have a phone conversation with you about your article.
Thanks.
Rob Shattuck
[referenced email to James Giles is immediately above Email re reinstating mask mandates in hospitals]

Email "Why should State Public Health Committee not abandon its pandemic response evaluation?"
From: Rob Shattuck <rdshatt@aol.com>
To: todd@aldailynews.com <todd@aldailynews.com>; james.giles@wbrc.com <james.giles@wbrc.com>; AlexanderWillis@gmail.com <alexanderwillis@gmail.com>
Cc: Stewart Tankersley <drtank334@gmail.com>; jsharp@al.com <jsharp@al.com>
Sent: Thursday, January 18, 2024 at 06:13:44 PM CST
Subject: Why should State Public Health Committee not abandon its pandemic response evaluation?
Dear Todd, James and Alexander,
This is in follow up to previous emails I sent you asking to have phone conversations with you relative to your recent reporting posted at https://www.fox10tv.com/2024/01/05/several-states-reinstate-mask-mandates-hospitals-health-leaders-weigh-if-alabama-should-follow-suit/ and at https://aldailynews.com/public-health-dept-proposes-rule-change-for-emergencies/
Said previous emails are posted at https://al6thcongdist-ihaveuntiljan13.blogspot.com/2023/03/letter-to-al-state-public-health.html.
The preceding link develops the case that the public health function in the Alabama state government is broken as regards evaluating the COVID-19 pandemic response and how to respond to any next pandemic.
In the podcast that is posted at https://rumble.com/v47lvul-on-covid-and-governmental-genocide-featuring-dr.-stewart-tankersley.html, Dr. Stewart Tankersley states his case that the public health function in Alabama state government is broken.
What I wanted to talk to you about is how your news media outlets have performed their journalistic obligations to the Alabama public as regards reporting on the evaluation that the State Public Health Committee is making of theCOVID-19 pandemic response of the Alabama Department of Public Health, including whether the Alabama public health function is broken and, if broken, what are the prospects that such broken public health function will be fixed.
I am copying Dr, Tankersley on this email.
Also, I am copying John Sharp on this email because I am working on a critique of the Mobile candidate forum this past Monday that John reported on at https://www.al.com/news/2024/01/key-takeaways-from-gop-candidates-forum-in-mobile.html, and I will borrow from this matter in making the foregoing critique.
Thank you for your attention to this email.
Sincerely,
Rob Shattuck

Email seeking better public discourse in Alabama re pandemic response
From: Rob Shattuck <rdshatt@aol.com>
To: mbunting@wsfa.com <mbunting@wsfa.com>; drtank334@gmail.com <drtank334@gmail.com>; eeaton@uab.edu <eeaton@uab.edu>; dwilliamson@alaha.org <dwilliamson@alaha.org>; mjackson@alamedical.org <mjackson@alamedical.org>; ccwilliams@aarp.org <ccwilliams@aarp.org>; robyn@alarise.org <robyn@alarise.org>; edasna@alabamanurses.org <edasna@alabamanurses.org>; perwin@uab.edu <perwin@uab.edu>; mkwhite@uab.edu <mkwhite@uab.edu>; rdfriend@ua.edu <rdfriend@ua.edu>; mmontgomery1@ua.edu <mmontgomery1@ua.edu>; bak0020@auburn.edu <bak0020@auburn.edu>; gen0002@auburn.edu <gen0002@auburn.edu>; arocha@alabamareflector.com <arocha@alabamareflector.com>; wthornton@al.com <wthornton@al.com>; todd@aldailynews.com <todd@aldailynews.com>; will@wbhm.org <will@wbhm.org>; dale@yellowhammernews.com <dale@yellowhammernews.com>; yaffee@yellowhammernews.com <yaffee@yellowhammernews.com>; will.blakely@1819news.com <will.blakely@1819news.com>; erica.thomas@1819news.com <erica.thomas@1819news.com>; admin@alabamapolicy.org <admin@alabamapolicy.org>; larry.stutts@alsenate.gov <larry.stutts@alsenate.gov>; james.giles@wbrc.com <james.giles@wbrc.com>; AlexanderWillis@gmail.com <alexanderwillis@gmail.com>; "alexanderwillis@gmail.com" <alexanderwillis@gmail.com>; jsharp@al.com <jsharp@al.com>
Sent: Tuesday, January 30, 2024 at 08:21:59 AM CST
Subject: Please help me get in Rep. Gary Palmer's face about pandemic responses
Please help me get in Rep. Gary Palmer's face about the national and Alabama's pandemic responses.
Please check out "Update 1/28/2024 - If wishes were horses" posted at Be An Alabama Rootstriker* with Rob Shattuck: 31 days until March 3rd (al6thcongdist-ihaveuntiljan13.blogspot.com).
Thank you very much.
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